We would like to believe that society is progressing. We are told that we are more evolved, wiser and more virtuous today than were the previous generations. But it is enough to read the news to understand that reality is often at odds with the vocabulary used to describe it.
Examples
We praise integrity and transparency in politics, but we will not have the right to a public inquiry into Chinese interference in the electoral process. It was David Johnson, an “independent” rapporteur and friend of the Trudeau family, who decided so.
We praise democracy, but we learn that François Legault limits the freedom of speech of his deputies.
We enthusiastically accept that drag queens participate in the education of young children, but we ban religious symbols for fear that a scarf becomes a tool of indoctrination.
In the name of tolerance, men who pretend to be women are allowed to infiltrate women’s competitions and thus destroy the efforts and hopes of biological women.
We say we are supportive and humanistic, but 27% of Canadians would agree to offering euthanasia on the grounds of “poverty”, and 20% would grant it, whatever the reason given. On the other hand, we put up with the lack of palliative care.
We celebrate the concept of gender identity, but we gradually erase history and, by definition, everything that shapes the identity of a people.
We are asked to believe in science, but Ottawa funds an academic movement whose goal is to “decolonize” the hard sciences and introduce relativism into it.
Sheep
Such contradictions and absurdities flood our daily lives. But no one reacts. Like zombies, we obey the craziest ukases without ever questioning their validity. Have we then lost our minds? One thing is certain, unless we revive our common sense and dust off our moral compass to stop degeneration, the future bodes very badly!